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Movie: The Old Oak
2024-05-16 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-05-17 16:00 - 18:00, 2024-05-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-05-20 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-05-21 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-05-22 16:30 - 18:30, 2024-05-23 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Beacon, 4405 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing in its small northern town, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. Its owner TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship, TJ meets a curious young Syrian photographer named Yara (Ebla Mari). Together can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes.

SIFF: Three Promises [Palestine]
2024-05-17 14:30 - 16:30, 2024-05-18 17:30 - 19:30 | SIFF Film Center, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, 98109
In the early 2000s, when the Israeli army was retaliating against the Second Intifada in the West Bank in Palestine, Suha filmed the experience from the hillside town of Beit Jala, where she lived with her family. Two decades later, her son has edited that footage and interwoven it with present-day conversations with his mother about what that period was like. The result provides a remarkable insight into daily life during wartime—the uncertainty, the upheaval, the terror—which families in Gaza are experiencing today. Suha and her husband try to gauge the distance of the attacks in order to calculate the degree of threat. Is it time to go down to the basement, or is it still okay to remain upstairs? Will the children be safer against the wall or in the corner? At the moments of greatest danger, Suha promises God that, if they survive, they will leave—they are fortunate enough to be able to do so. But leaving feels almost as impossible as staying, a choice between emotional anguish (not to mention the logistical ordeal) and physical jeopardy. In this way, the film is also an exploration of the topic of forced migration, another aspect of the Palestinian experience that is still with us in the present.

SIFF: Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano [Lebanon]
2024-05-20 - 2024-05-27 | Virtual
While shooting Costa Brava, Lebanon (SIFF 2022), the film crew’s world stopped when Lebanon’s Port of Beirut suddenly exploded, killing over 200 people and injuring thousands more. What does it mean to strive for human dignity and make art amid a country’s continuing turmoil?

SIFF: The Mother of All Lies [Morocco]
2024-05-20 - 2024-05-27 | Virtual
How do you reconstruct the past when all traces of that past have been erased? This is the dilemma that confronts filmmaker Asmae El Moudir, in terms of both her personal history and the history of her country. In terms of her personal history, her tyrannical grandmother has forbidden the taking of photographs in the family, seemingly as part of a larger obfuscation of the past. In the absence of photographs, El Moudir enlists her father, a successful builder, to help her construct an elaborate diorama of the street where the family lived during her childhood, in the Sebata district of Casablanca. She populates the diorama with miniature clay figurines of her family, friends, and neighbors. Their real-life counterparts are then invited to revisit their memories of that time and place—in particular the 1981 Casablanca Bread Riots, protests over the price of bread that were brutally suppressed by the police and military. On El Moudir’s street alone, a girl her age named Fatima was killed in the street; neighbors Saïd and Abdallah were seized and tortured. These events have been suppressed in El Moudir’s family history, as well as in the national history. But El Moudir recreates them, retrieving what might otherwise be lost; bringing family secrets and memories to light, and achieving some measure of justice, if only in miniature.

Spaces of Exception (Film & Discussion)
2024-05-28 19:30 - 21:00 | The Beacon, 4405 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
With filmmaker Matt Peterson in attendance for an introduction and Q&A following the screening.

Shot between 2014 to 2017, SPACES OF EXCEPTION observes and juxtaposes the communities and struggles of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. It visits reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well camps in Lebanon and the West Bank, “places defined by their historical and spiritual resistance” in order to “understand the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty.”

More info and buy tickets (for profit to the theater): https://thebeacon.film/calendar/movie/spaces-of-exception
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Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2024-06-01 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links!
Often the screening ends with a Q&A with the director!
Free virtual screening of the documentary film “Children’s Cries,” directed by Iyad AbuRok

Saturday, June 1, 2024
12:00 PM 1:30 PM

Click here to register for this event.
Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, 17:00 London; Running Time 32 minutes, 2024, English with Arabic subtitles. The film screening will be followed by discussions with film director Iyad AbuRok.
About the Film
The film is a poignant work that sheds light on the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian people from the Nakba of 1948 to the present day. It provides a realistic and vivid depiction of the massacres and crimes committed against children and civilians in the Palestinian territories, including Gaza and the West Bank.

Free Film Screening: Israelism
2024-06-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Edmonds Theater, 415 Main St, Edmonds, WA, 98020
Two young American Jews travel to Israel seeking a deeper understanding of the country they were raised to love. What they encounter profoundly impacts them, leading them to join a growing movement to redefine their community’s relationship with Israel in this challenging and emotional journey. Join us for the free screening of this film.
About the film
Two young American Jews – Simone Zimmerman and Eitan – are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel‘s mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken.
They join the movement of young American Jews battling the old guard over Israel’s centrality in American Judaism, and demanding freedom for the Palestinian people. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers fed them as children.
The film also features voices like Jacqui, a Jewish educator who says “Judaism is Israel and Israel is Judaism”, and former Anti-Defamation League President Abe Foxman, who claims voices like Simone and Eitan’s represent a small minority. Thought leaders like Peter Beinart, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Noura Erakat, Cornel West, and Noam Chomsky also weigh in.
Directed by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who share a similar story to the film’s protagonists, Israelism is produced by Peabody-winner and 4-time Emmy-nominee Daniel J. Chalfen (Loudmouth, Boycott), executive produced by two-time Emmy-winner Brian A. Kates (Marvelous Ms. Maisel, Succession) and edited by Emmy-winner Tony Hale (The Story of Plastic), Israelism uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for Judaism itself.

Streaming: Movie: Where the Olive Trees Weep
2024-06-06 - 2024-06-27 | Virtual
Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
We follow, among others, Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. We also watch Dr. Gabor Maté support a group of women seeking understanding and healing and offer his insights into intergenerational trauma.

Virtual Movie Screenings: Every Saturday with Palestine Museum US
2024-06-08 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Check website: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/events for current showings and for registration links!
Often the screening ends with a Q&A with the director!

Pinkwashing Exposed: Film & Panel
2024-06-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Description“Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back,” documents an extraordinary moment in Seattle queer history. The hour-long documentary will be followed by a panel with director Dean Spade and other long-time queer Palestine solidarity activists, with plenty of time for talking about visions for the future and what’s going on right now in Seattle.

Accessibility: wheelchair accessible, doors are not motorized. Some assisted listening devices may be available. Email the Patron Services Manager at suji@nwfilmforum.org for more info on access.

Organized by Elder Dykes for Palestine,
email Pinkwashingno@gmail.com with questions.

Tickets may be purchased at https://nwfilmforum.org/films/pinkwashing-exposed-seattle-fights-back-in-person-only/
50% of proceeds will benefit direct aid to Gaza
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Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:
Thu Jun 13: 7.30pm PDT

Sun Jun 16: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:

Sun Jun 16: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-16 16:30 - 18:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Also showing:

Sun Jun 16, 7.30pm PDT

Movie: Photo Booth
2024-06-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
In this split-screen opera-documentary about boycott activism, two Palestinian brothers plot with novelist Jean Genet in Jericho to sabotage the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay singing penguins. Photo Booth weaves together diverse doc, opera, and video art scenes, blending humour and song to explore the politics of boycott, staged in a surreal landscape of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…

Cinema: Celebrate Pride: Arab Love
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-30 | Virtual
Arab Love is AFMI’s annual program focused on sharing the stories of the LGBTQ+ Arab community around the world.
This year’s selection of short films explores the complicated nature of gender and sexuality in relationships, and the pressure young queer people experience across the Arab world to act a role that is in inauthentic to their true selves.
Films included:

Ya Benti by Anissa Allali
Sahbety (My Girl Friend) by Kawthar Younis
Cousins by Karina Dandashi
Conditional Desire by Houcem Slouli
Eitr by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller

Available online starting today, June 17th, through June 30th. Pay what you can to get access.
Please note that this program is only available in the USA.
Psst: looking for more films to watch? Check out our updated list of Queer Arab Films to watch during Pride month.

Movie Screening: Where Olive Trees Weep
2024-06-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Central – Seattle Public Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States
“It’s been a difficult year for our organization as many of you are seeing live streams on your phones everyday. We are finding community where we can and hope to find community with y’all as we host a free screening of Where Olive Trees Weep.”#whereolivetreesweep#CeaseFireNow #PalestinianLiberation#grief #indigenous #healing #trauma#authenticity #intergenerational#solidarity

Virtual Movie Screenings: "Catastrophe of Gaza" directed by Iyad AbuRok
2024-06-29 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Click here to register for this event.

Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, 17:00 London; Running Time 17 minutes, 2024, English with Arabic subtitles. The film screening will be followed by discussions with audience,
About the Film
“Catastrophe of Gaza” is a documentary that chronicles the Palestinian reality from the Nakba of 1948 to the present day, highlighting the crimes and atrocities committed against the Palestinian people.

Movie: Green Border
2024-07-05 15:30 - 17:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Legendary filmmaker Agnieszka Holland won the Golden Lion at the 2023 Venice Film Festival for this ground-level examination of the refugee crisis at the titular exclusion zone between Belarus and Poland, seen through the eyes of a Syrian family fleeing their war-torn home.

SIFF Movie: Green Border
2024-07-05 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-07-06 12:15 - 14:30, 2024-07-06 15:30 - 17:30, 2024-07-06 18:45 - 20:30, 2024-07-07 12:15 - 14:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
